
Article 1 
Part A of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 July 2013.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 5 March 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX

In Part A of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, row 254 on the active substance sodium hypochlorite is replaced by the following:

Number Common Name, Identification Numbers IUPAC Name Purity Date of approval Expiration of approval Specific provisions
‘254 Sodium hypochloriteCAS No: 7681-52-9CIPAC: 848 Sodium hypochlorite Sodium hypochlorite: 105 g/kg-126 g/kg (122 g/L-151 g/L) technical concentrate10-12 % (w/w) expressed as chlorine 1 September 2009 31 August 2019 
PART A Only indoor uses as disinfectant may be authorised.

PART B For the implementation of the uniform principles as referred to in Article 29(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, the conclusions of the review report on sodium hypochlorite (SANCO/2988/2008) and in particular Appendices I and II thereof, as finalised in the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health on 1 February 2013 shall be taken into account.
In this overall assessment Member States shall pay particular attention to:

((a)) the risk to operator and workers;
((b)) the exposure of soil to sodium hypochlorite and its reaction products through spreading of treated compost on organic land shall be avoided.
Conditions of use shall include risk mitigation measures, where appropriate.’


